Risk

Regulatory Safety, ranked

Exposure to securities classification, enforcement history and the standing of the issuing entity.

One of the 25 variables in the framework. 251 tokens rated. Scoring pass 18 Sept 2026.

Median
5/10
mean 5.45
Scoring 9 or 10
5
of 251 rated
Composite link
0.32
correlation with total score
Market link
0.28
rank correlation with market cap, n=236
01

What this variable measures

Exposure to securities classification, enforcement history and the standing of the issuing entity.

A 10 means a settled classification or a structure with no obvious attack surface. A 1 means live enforcement risk.

Regulatory outcomes are binary and they do not respect fundamentals. No other variable can zero a position outright.

02

What the universe says

Across 251 rated tokens the median score on Regulatory Safety is 5 of 10 and the mean is 5.45. 5 tokens score 9 or 10, and 5 score 2 or below. Ethereum leads at 10 of 10.

Regulatory Safety correlates 0.32 with the composite score across the universe, which makes it loosely tied to overall standing. That is low enough that the variable is finding something the rest of the framework misses, which is where a screen on it alone is worth running.

Against live market capitalisation for the 236 tokens with a matched market row, Regulatory Safety carries a rank correlation of 0.28. The market leans this way but does not price it consistently, so the ranking below still contains disagreement worth using.

The closest variable to Regulatory Safety is Institutional Adoption at 0.45, which is moderately tied to it. Nothing else in the framework restates this one, so it earns its slot.

Liquity (LQTY) scores 8 of 10 on Regulatory Safety, 6th of 251, on a market capitalisation under $500M. That gap between rank on this variable and rank by size is the whole reason to read the table rather than the top ten.

03

Distribution across the universe

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1
4
2
10
3
24
4
111
5
50
6
35
7
11
8
4
9
1
10

Tokens at each score from 1 to 10. The shape matters: a variable where almost everything clusters at 3 is telling you the whole category fails it, not that one token is unusual.

04

All 251 tokens ranked

Sorted by score on this variable alone, so a token can lead here and rank poorly overall. That disagreement is the useful part: it is where a single-variable screen finds something the composite averages away.

251 crypto tokens ranked by Regulatory Safety, scored 1 to 10
#TokenRegulatory SafetyCompositeMarket capVerdict
1ETHEthereumInstitutional settlement layer. Commodity classification. Burn collapsed but moat intact.10/10187$313.17BHOLD CORE
2BTCBitcoinDigital gold with a large spot ETF complex and 94.5% supply mined. Store-of-value thesis intact, though ETF assets fell through 2026.9/10183$1.67THOLD CORE
3UNIUniswapFee switch live on 11+ chains. Protocol revenue $26-61M (P/S 57-73x). V4 on 18 chains, 2500+ hooks. 100M UNI burned but net inflationary (+1.43%/yr). BlackRock entered Feb 2026. a16z holds 41.5-55M UNI. $200M+ insider selling 2025. Unichain TVL $17.8-29.6M (not $532M). SEC safe harbor Apr 2026.9/10167$4.91BHOLD
4LINKChainlink70% oracle dominance. DTCC Q4 2026. SOC 2 Type 2. $500M/yr treasury sell pressure. 2 ETFs live.9/10165$10.01BHOLD
5AVAXAvalancheBest institutional traction among alt-L1s (3 ETFs, BlackRock BUIDL over $900M, SEC commodity, FIFA World Cup, CME futures). Revenue weakness real ($767K/yr current against Hyperliquid's roughly $844M 2025 revenue). Subnet L1s complement, not cannibalize.9/10138$4.93BCAUTIOUS HOLD
6MKRMaker / Sky$124M Q1 revenue. 2.7x gross P/S (~6.7x net). Buyback allocation cut from 75% to 7.5% of surplus in Mar 2026 to fund a $150M Solvency Reserve. Sky rebrand: about 81% of MKR already upgraded to SKY.8/10177not publishedHOLD CORE
7AAVEAaveKelpDAO $190-230M bad debt, 3 core team departures (ACI/BGD/Chaos), buybacks paused. But $142M rev, 55-63% share, V4+Umbrella live, SEC cleared.8/10156$2.65BHOLD
8LQTYLiquityV2 is RE-deployment after Jan 2025 bug (same auditors didn't catch it). 99% circ. BOLD $30M (<0.01%).8/10151$23.3MHOLD
9PAXGPAX Gold1:1 gold-backed token. Each PAXG = 1 troy oz London Good Delivery gold.8/10141$1.79BHOLD
10SAFESafe (formerly Gnosis Safe)Token for the dominant smart-contract wallet securing $100B+ in assets, but governance token with minimal direct value accrual so far8/10132$84.0MCAUTIOUS HOLD
11COMPCompound8/10119$234.1MWATCH
12ONDOOndo Finance8/10115$2.27BWATCH
13KASKaspa8/10114$1.11BWATCH
14LTCLitecoin8/10102$5.15BWATCH
15CFXConflux8/1098$265.8MPASS
16ALGOAlgorand8/1097$1.05BPASS
17GEODGEODNET7/10169$137.0MHOLD
18COWCoW Protocol7/10167$82.3MHOLD
19RETHRocket Pool ETH7/10159$946.8MHOLD
20MORPHOMorpho7/10157$1.75BHOLD
21GMXGMX7/10143$84.3MHOLD
22ENSEthereum Name Service7/10137$269.1MCAUTIOUS HOLD
23NEARNEAR Protocol7/10135$6.64BCAUTIOUS HOLD
24ARBArbitrum7/10134$1.25BCAUTIOUS HOLD
25AKTAkash Network7/10129$210.6MCAUTIOUS HOLD
26GNOGnosis7/10128$316.6MCAUTIOUS HOLD
27OPOptimism7/10123$273.9MCAUTIOUS HOLD
28POLPolygon system Token7/10123$1.08BCAUTIOUS HOLD
29GRTThe Graph7/10121$297.6MCAUTIOUS HOLD
30XRPXRP7/10121$90.31BCAUTIOUS HOLD
31ADACardano7/10113$9.57BWATCH
32PYTHPyth Network7/10107$557.2MWATCH
33SSVSSV Network7/10106$42.1MWATCH
34RPLRocket Pool7/10104$40.8MWATCH
35DOTPolkadot7/10103$1.88BWATCH
36SCROLLScroll7/10102$4.7MWATCH
37VETVeChain7/10101$692.4MWATCH
38CORECore7/10100$29.2MWATCH
39MINAMina Protocol7/1098$121.4MPASS
40ZKZKsync7/1095$129.1MPASS
41POLYXPolymesh7/1095$52.9MPASS
42CELOCelo7/1094$57.3MPASS
43CKBNervos Network7/1093$61.4MPASS
44STRKStarknet7/1093$366.4MPASS
45DOGEDogecoin7/1089$13.83BPASS
46XTZTezos7/1088$336.3MPASS
47EGLDMultiversX (prev. Elrond)7/1085$123.2MPASS
48FLOWFlow7/1078$53.4MPASS
49LRCLoopring7/1078$13.2MPASS
50IOTAIOTA7/1078$248.2MPASS
51ZILZilliqa7/1063$64.9MPASS
52WSTETHWrapped Lido Staked ETH6/10185$11.76BHOLD CORE
53SOLSolana6/10170$68.57BHOLD
54SYRUPMaple Finance6/10168$268.1MHOLD
55ETHFIEther.fi6/10162$680.1MHOLD
56PENDLEPendle Finance6/10160$391.5MHOLD
57CBETHCoinbase Wrapped Staked ETH6/10158$484.5MHOLD
58AEROAerodrome Finance6/10157$794.7MHOLD
59SUISui6/10146$4.63BHOLD
60ARArweave6/10140$274.9MHOLD
61ACXAcross Protocol6/10137$30.5MCAUTIOUS HOLD
62JTOJito6/10134$263.0MCAUTIOUS HOLD
63OLASOlas (Autonolas)6/10129$13.4MCAUTIOUS HOLD
64TAOBittensor6/10128$3.29BCAUTIOUS HOLD
65RENDERRender Network6/10127$1.05BCAUTIOUS HOLD
66LPTLivepeer6/10123$82.2MCAUTIOUS HOLD
67HNTHelium6/10122$97.6MCAUTIOUS HOLD
68VELOVelodrome Finance6/10121$46.1MCAUTIOUS HOLD
69TIACelestia6/10120$432.0MCAUTIOUS HOLD
70STXStacks6/10118$697.8MWATCH
71IMXImmutable X6/10117$156.3MWATCH
72APTAptos6/10116$652.3MWATCH
73QNTQuant6/10116$3.53BWATCH
74SSonic (prev. Fantom)6/10115$154.2MWATCH
75HBARHedera6/10112$4.09BWATCH
76YFIYearn Finance6/10111$86.4MWATCH
77MATICPolygon (Legacy)6/10110$1.08BWATCH
78IOio.net6/10108$63.1MWATCH
79STORJStorj6/10108$12.3MWATCH
80XLMStellar6/10108$7.01BWATCH
81THETATheta Network6/10105$214.2MWATCH
82CVXConvex Finance6/10103$193.9MWATCH
83ICPInternet Computer6/10102$1.75BWATCH
84FILFilecoin6/10101$867.2MWATCH
85API3API36/1099$45.0MPASS
86ORDIORDI6/1096$88.5MPASS
87ANKRAnkr Network6/1096$46.1MPASS
88BALBalancer6/1095$9.1MPASS
89BONKBonk6/1093$300.8MPASS
90OSMOOsmosis6/1093$26.6MPASS
91MOBILEHelium Mobile6/1092$6.0MPASS
92WWormhole6/1092$93.6MPASS
93PEPEPepe6/1092$1.70BPASS
94NANONano6/1090$46.6MPASS
95WIFdogwifhat6/1088$227.9MPASS
96ROSEOasis Network6/1084$62.0MPASS
97KAVAKava6/1080$71.7MPASS
98BANDBand Protocol6/1073$40.8MPASS
99JASMYJasmyCoin6/1067$243.3MPASS
100KDAKadena6/1050$3.0MPASS
101ONEHarmony6/1048$32.9MPASS
102VIRTUALVirtuals Protocol5/10151$502.6MCAUTIOUS HOLD
103JUPJupiter5/10151$1.04BHOLD
104CETUSCetus Protocol5/10147$25.0MHOLD
105LDOLido DAO5/10146$353.8MHOLD
106FLUIDFluid (Instadapp)5/10145$158.2MCAUTIOUS HOLD
107OKBOKB5/10145$2.75BHOLD
108DRIFTDrift Protocol5/10142$14.3MHOLD
109CRVCurve Finance5/10140$552.7MHOLD
110INJInjective5/10139$727.9MCAUTIOUS HOLD
111KMNOKamino Finance5/10138$214.9MCAUTIOUS HOLD
112BGBBitget Token5/10135$1.37BCAUTIOUS HOLD
113SNXSynthetix5/10130$137.5MCAUTIOUS HOLD
114BERABerachain5/10127$76.8MCAUTIOUS HOLD
115LITLighter5/10125$876.5MWATCH
116CAKEPancakeSwap5/10123$698.0MCAUTIOUS HOLD
117ORCAOrca5/10123$167.2MCAUTIOUS HOLD
118MAVMaverick Protocol5/10121$13.1MCAUTIOUS HOLD
119VRTXVertex Protocol5/10121not publishedCAUTIOUS HOLD
120CHZChiliz5/10120$165.6MCAUTIOUS HOLD
121PRIMEEchelon Prime5/10119$14.8MWATCH
122MNDEMarinade5/10119$15.6MWATCH
123WOOWOO Network5/10118$23.6MWATCH
124STGStargate Finance5/10117$20.1MWATCH
125JOETrader Joe5/10117$17.4MWATCH
126CFGCentrifuge5/10115not publishedWATCH
127TNSRTensor5/10112$27.8MWATCH
128FTMFantom5/10111not publishedWATCH
129KNCKyber Network5/10110$28.1MWATCH
130FETFetch.ai (ASI Alliance)5/10109$522.8MWATCH
131DYDXdYdX5/10109$113.2MWATCH
132BICOBiconomy5/10109$20.1MWATCH
133PERPPerpetual Protocol5/10108$2.8MWATCH
134ALCXAlchemix5/10108$6.6MWATCH
135OMMANTRA5/10108$29.1MWATCH
136EIGENEigenLayer5/10107$226.1MWATCH
137VELAVela Exchange5/10107not publishedWATCH
138GELGelato5/10107$498.0KWATCH
139SLNDSolend5/10106not publishedWATCH
140GTCGitcoin5/10106$15.9MWATCH
141FXSFrax Share5/10105$28.3MWATCH
142QUICKQuickSwap5/10105$7.0MWATCH
143PENGUPudgy Penguins5/10104$535.4MWATCH
144RDNTRadiant Capital5/10104$1.0MWATCH
145RONRonin5/10104$49.1MWATCH
146MLNEnzyme (Melon)5/10104not publishedWATCH
147RSRReserve Rights5/10104$100.3MWATCH
148KLAYKlaytn5/10103not publishedWATCH
149KSMKusama5/10103$90.6MWATCH
150SHDWShadow Token5/10103$5.3MWATCH
151CROCronos5/10102$3.12BWATCH
152TRUTrueFi5/10102$1.1MWATCH
153ATHAethir5/10101$132.9MWATCH
154ILVIlluvium5/10101$31.5MWATCH
155MCMerit Circle (Beam)5/10101not publishedWATCH
156DASHDash5/10101$683.9MWATCH
157GMTSTEPN5/10101$25.0MWATCH
158AUDIOAudius5/10101$22.7MWATCH
159SEISei5/10100$457.3MWATCH
160BADGERBadgerDAO5/10100$6.4MWATCH
161USUALUsual Protocol5/1099$23.6MPASS
162FLRFlare5/1099$609.8MPASS
163NMRNumeraire5/1098$105.4MPASS
164IOTXIoTeX5/1098$34.2MPASS
165COTICOTI5/1097$39.1MPASS
166SKLSKALE5/1097$26.6MPASS
167ACHAlchemy Pay5/1097not publishedPASS
168REQRequest5/1097$42.8MPASS
169RADRadicle5/1097$19.5MPASS
170POOLPoolTogether5/1096$176.3KPASS
171FLUXFlux5/1096$191.3KPASS
172CTSICartesi5/1096$27.7MPASS
173YGGYield Guild Games5/1095$22.5MPASS
174GLMRMoonbeam5/1094$13.9MPASS
175RLCiExec5/1094$61.1MPASS
1761INCH1inch Network5/1093$138.1MPASS
177PROPPropy5/1093$35.2MPASS
178MBOXMOBOX5/1092$298.5KPASS
179HOPRHOPR5/1092$8.7MPASS
180SNTStatus5/1092$38.1MPASS
181ALPHAAlpha Venture DAO5/1091$483.2KPASS
182PONDMarlin5/1091$14.2MPASS
183TRBTellor5/1090$56.4MPASS
184CELRCeler Network5/1090$22.9MPASS
185ETCEthereum Classic5/1090$1.32BPASS
186ALICEMy Neighbor Alice5/1089$16.9MPASS
187FLOKIFLOKI5/1088$257.5MPASS
188PEAQpeaq5/1088$102.2MPASS
189HIGHHighstreet5/1088not publishedPASS
190SXPSolar5/1088$2.5MPASS
191DENTDent5/1088$6.2MPASS
192BLASTBlast5/1087$4.9MPASS
193LEVERLeverFi5/1087not publishedPASS
194NOSNosana5/1086$52.5MPASS
195GOGGuild of Guardians5/1086$960.1KPASS
196AGLDAdventure Gold5/1086$18.0MPASS
197CANTOCanto5/1086$2.0MPASS
198BLURBlur5/1084$55.8MPASS
199FORTHAmpleforth Governance5/1084$3.0MPASS
200MASKMask Network5/1082$45.8MPASS
201WAXPWAX5/1081$26.9MPASS
202MANTAManta Network5/1076$31.1MPASS
203SUSHISushiSwap5/1074$66.7MPASS
204RVNRavencoin5/1074$36.1MPASS
205MODEMode Network5/1072$666.9KPASS
206SHIBShiba Inu5/1071$3.17BPASS
207RBNRibbon Finance5/1068$1.7MPASS
208SUPERSuperVerse5/1067$144.5MPASS
209MOVEMovement5/1067$40.6MPASS
210MANADecentraland5/1066$197.1MPASS
211QTUMQtum5/1061$97.7MPASS
212MEMEMemecoin5/1057$36.6MPASS
213HYPEHyperliquid4/10193$19.71BHOLD CORE
214SKYSky (formerly Maker)4/10141$1.86BCAUTIOUS HOLD
215BANANABanana Gun4/10135$15.5MCAUTIOUS HOLD
216LEOUNUS SED LEO4/10126$8.19BCAUTIOUS HOLD
217GTGateToken4/10123not publishedCAUTIOUS HOLD
218KCSKuCoin Token4/10119not publishedWATCH
219GRASSGrass4/10111$457.9MWATCH
220APEApeCoin4/10102$146.9MWATCH
221ATOMCosmos4/1096$899.5MPASS
222ALPACAAlpaca Finance4/1095$138.7KPASS
223INVInverse Finance4/1095$6.9MPASS
224FARMHarvest Finance4/1093$5.1MPASS
225BONDBarnBridge4/1082$93.5KPASS
226PRCLParcl4/1080$5.5MPASS
227IDEXIDEX4/1077$838.1KPASS
228AXSAxie Infinity4/1076$207.3MPASS
229BTTBitTorrent4/1076$357.4MPASS
230MCBMCDEX4/1076$8.9MPASS
231NOTNotcoin4/1073$45.0MPASS
232POPCATPopcat4/1073$46.9MPASS
233SPELLSpell Token4/1063$16.0MPASS
234DOGSDOGS4/1062$22.6MPASS
235SANDThe Sandbox4/1058$219.2MPASS
236NEIRONEIRO4/1056$35.3MPASS
237RAYRaydium3/10129$670.5MCAUTIOUS HOLD
238ENAEthena3/10120$3.06BCAUTIOUS HOLD
239GNSGains Network3/10116$9.5MWATCH
240TONToncoin3/10110$4.02BWATCH
241ZROLayerZero3/10106$850.4MWATCH
242ZECZcash3/10101$22.59BWATCH
243HTHuobi Token3/1098$16.3MPASS
244MXMEXC Token3/1094not publishedPASS
245NEONeo3/1068$166.5MPASS
246GALAGala Games3/1053$114.2MPASS
247BNBBNB2/10144$102.38BHOLD
248TRXTRON2/10125$31.81BCAUTIOUS HOLD
249XMRMonero2/10117$10.41BWATCH
250WLDWorldcoin2/1089$1.96BPASS
251RUNETHORChain1/10106$234.5MPASS

Scores come from the research pass dated 18 Sept 2026 and do not move with price. Market capitalisation is from the live snapshot fetched 7 Oct 2026, so the two columns are stamped at different times on purpose.

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Variables that move with this one

Correlations across all 251 rated tokens. A number near 1 means the two variables are close to the same measurement, which is worth knowing before treating a second high score as independent confirmation of the first.

06

Common questions

Which crypto tokens score highest on regulatory safety?
Ethereum (ETH) at 10, Bitcoin (BTC) at 9, Uniswap (UNI) at 9, Chainlink (LINK) at 9, Avalanche (AVAX) at 9 lead the 251 rated tokens on Regulatory Safety, each scored 1 to 10 against the same definition.
What is a good regulatory safety score?
The median across the universe is 5 of 10 and the mean is 5.45, so anything at 7 or above sits well inside the top of the distribution. Only 5 of 251 tokens reach 9 or 10.
Does regulatory safety affect a token's market cap?
Rank correlation between Regulatory Safety and market capitalisation is 0.28 across 236 tokens with live market data. That is a weak relationship, so the market prices it only partly.

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Research and analysis, not investment advice. Correlations describe the rated universe at one point in time and are not predictions.